THE RIGHT LINE.
Ax old woman returning from church, where she had been highly delighted with the striking expressions of her beloved minister, which had so seized upon her mind that even in the open air she was led to exclaim, ‘ What shall I do to be saved, what shall I do ? what shall I do ?’ a person of rather weak intellect happened to overhear her, and turning round said to her, * What will ye do? just wait on an’ see what the rest does.’
W’ife : • Charles, where did you bny that parrot ?’ Charles : * Why, what is the matter with it ? I bought it off a dealer, and it was young and speechless.’ Wife: ‘ Then why, when I kissed your photo in the album, did that wretched bird say : “ Don't do that, Charlie, please don’t?” ’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 12 September 1891, Page 864
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135THE RIGHT LINE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 12 September 1891, Page 864
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